Front Office Supervisor India / Customer Operations / Delhi,ncr / Chennai / Global Analytics India Pvt Ltd Job in Gain Credit

Position Summary

The organisation is going through an exciting time of change with an emerging new structure and lots of new initiatives. The role holder is expected to play a key part in those changes and to seek and deliver activities to drive the business forward.

The core function of the role is the efficient and cost-effective management of the team responsible for non-voice customer service interactions as well as administrative processes relating to the servicing of new and existing customers.

The role holder is responsible for implementing and executing processes designed to support and enhance operational performance, process and delivery, ensuring that solutions are compliant

Critical Business Activities

• Staff management and coaching are key elements of the role and the role holder will be expected to manage, lead and develop a team of agents
• Managing the processing and response to incoming chat and emails in a timely, compliant and customer friendly manner
• Working closely with colleagues and QA team to identify issues and improve service performance
• Monitor day to day service delivery and quality results
• Work closely with the UK specialty Customer success team to ensure alignment of action and clarity of understanding
• Identify opportunity structurally to reduce service demand by identifying areas of friction in our relationships with our customers
• Promote, share and build awareness of vulnerability within the Ops environment.
• Review and interpret operational MI to enable sufficient control to be maintained over operational delivery & provide regular updates to management
• Review and maintain plans to ensure adequate of operational capacity to ensure cost effective and customer satisfying service.
• Routine, timely and thorough review of existing procedural documents, working with head of Process management
• The nature of the role means that the role holder will become involved in process improvement projects and other activities designed to improve and develop a growing and changing business.
• It is important therefore that the role holder can display solid analytical skills and the capability to work constructively with colleagues both in India and the UK

Competencies and Experience

Technical Skills and Experience

Skills:

• High level of fluency in written and spoken British English able to distinguish between Indian and British English colloquial language
• Previous 1st line management experience in a service environment
• Solid planning skills able to manipulate data to provide actionable insights
• High level of influence able to build strong sustainable personal relationships
• Bias for action willing to intervene personally on cases where required
• Emotionally robust able to deal personally with the most complex, stressful and charged cases
• Strong personal impact the ability to take people with you
• PC Skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

Preferred:

• 2-5 years of experience 1st line management in retail Financial Services
• Evidence of deployment of leadership skills
• Understanding of the financial services business
• Experience of remediation of complex, distressed, angry customer is a significant advantage
• Understanding of the UK FCA definition of vulnerability id a distinct advantage
• Flexible with working hours
• Demonstrable experience of making decisions where not all the preferred information was available

Competencies Required

• Adjusting to Change: Ability to remain optimistic, recover from setbacks, projects cheerfulness, can cope with change, can tolerate uncertainty, adapts to new challenges, acknowledging criticism, encouraging critical thinking, gathers feedback.
• Investigating Issues: Ability take up learning opportunities, acquiring knowledge and skills, updating specialist knowledge, applying practical skills, learning by doing, applying common sense, continuously improving things, identifying key issues, making intuitive judgements.
• Building Relationships: Ability to put people at ease, welcome people, makes friends, maintain projects enthusiasm, making contacts, active networking, can attract attention, promotes personal achievements and can gain recognition.
• Communicating Information: Should be able to successfully persuade others, shaping opinions, negotiating, can question assumptions, challenges established views, argues own perspective, gives presentations, explains things and is able to project social confidence.
• Structuring Tasks: Ability to work methodically, plans activities, sets priorities, behaves ethically, maintains confidentiality, consistently acts with integrity, works quickly, maintains productivity and can multi-task.

Starting the role

In the initial start-up the role holder will need to undertake the following

• Become familiar with LS and Drafty products
• Understand the market we serve
• Become deeply familiar with the standard templates in use and the process for recommending changes
• Build a relationship with UK Customer success team
• Deeply understand the current QA process
• Review extant procedural documentation for gaps, errors and obvious opportunities